Almost 3 week old infant will only sleep with me - help!
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Anonymous
| Op my 2 year old won't sleep without me. Agh shoot me now!!! |
Anonymous
Ugh! That is horrible. |
Anonymous
| DC was the same, alas. We used one of the arms reach co sleepers (think that was what it was called, it was 6 years ago now) and I slept with my arm IN the sleeper with DC. He was sleeping in a crib by 4 months. Never a good sleeper, mind you, but eventually in a crib in his own room. |
Anonymous
| Thanks for the Dr. James McKenna suggestion. He doesn't seem definitive in his advice. But he seems to say cosleeping is okay. |
Anonymous
| My son was exactly like this but he outgrew it on his own around 6 weeks. My daughter never went through this phase, and I sometimes think it had to do with the season. (My son was born in the fall when it was cooler in the house, and my daughter was a June baby.) Who knows? I will say that my son- at age 4- is still an extremely snuggly kid, while my daughter guards her personal space more. |
Anonymous
| My son was like that, too. He started sleeping in the crib at night around 3 months, and started sleeping in the crib for naps around 4-5 months. After that, we never co-slept He's now 2.5, and a great sleeper. The only tricky part is getting him to go to sleep at night sometimes (we usually rock for 5 minutes), getting him to sleep alone in a strange place (he won't), and getting him to go to sleep when he has a babysitter. He also still loves to be carried around everywhere. |
Anonymous
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Our baby only slept swaddled in the rock n play for his first 3 monhs. I did worry about his little neck being too scrunched up, but he quickly grew big enough not to worry. We transitioned him to a crib at around 3 months with no problems!
Looking back, I wish I had tried co-sleeping from the beginning, but by the time I tried it he wasn't interested. |